This week's column offers "A Respite from Reality" via some of Hollywood's more charming classics, but Powerline is featuring much more stirring fare: IDF videos of Hamas facitilities in Gaza being blown to smithereens.

To smithereens, of course, is exactly where they should be blown--and to the cheers of a grateful world. But we don't inhabit such a grateful world, just a cold planet occupied by ghoulish jihadists and their growing masses of supporters.

The Powerline videos are ones the IDF has posted on Youtube--and which Youtube first and OUTRAGEOUSLY pulled off the site as "inappropriate content" but now offers to Youtube-registered viewers who are over 18. Here is the IDF Youtube channel.

After Powerline posted the videos, the website was subject to something Powerline described as "a Denial-of-Service attack from a cabal of a half-dozen servers in the U.S.," an attack that basically overwhelms a site through massive usage. Powerline writes: "Our data center promptly registered the attack, and then defeated it," using "an advanced computer called a Cisco Guard. This device recognize malicious Internet traffic and defeats it."

Chalk one up for our side. Powerline continues:

Yet it does not strike one as quite right that Islamists can will good content out of existence, does it? So we've placed the IDF videos on a Content Delivery Network, which is an advanced network of hundreds of computers throughout the world. When you click on a video, the version nearest you will be delivered to your computer. This will make these videos, and all future PL videos, very easy to watch.

See them here and here--just in case Youtube censors the official IDF channel again. Below is one of the IDF videos, unusual footage of Israeli air force preparations for a nightime raid.